Chapter 15 : Finality

Today I decided to break up Rancid Abomination for good. I had good reasons. I was sick and tired of all the stress involved with A) Writing the music for the project B) Mixing the music properly C) Doing good vocals and mixing them properly and D) Marketing the music online.  The stress has become unbearable for the last few months, so I decided to quit permanently. This time all of my projects/bands are no longer going to come back, this covers all of them, Unleashing Vengeance, Homicidal Hammerfist, you name it... I won't be writing metal anymore, the response lately has been lacking and it doesn't seem to be worth it now..

So after all these new cd's and the reunion and all, Rancid Abomination is finally shutting down... I simply cannot do it anymore... Don't get me wrong... I LOVE Rancid Abomination, like no other band, because it's my first serious band/project and I really enjoyed writing music for it.. But I cannot continue anymore. It's a hard decision.. To continue or to quit. Is continuing even worth it? Hard decision to make.

So, without any more stuff to do, what will I do from now on...  I know that I won't be doing anymore albums, that is for sure... But the fan reception needs work.. So I am not quitting the marketing of the band just yet.  Everything else will be off the table so I can focus on doing various things to get it out there for one final push... I will be filming documentaries for Rancid Abomination and Unleashing Vengeance tonight, complete music samples being played for different parts of the documentaries... I will split up the documentary into sections to make it easier to film.  I will have to make it 15 minutes or smaller to fit it on my youtube but that shouldn't be a big issue I think. The detail I go into into the documentaries will be limited for the UV one I will be doing as well so I need to focus on Rancid Abomination first..

It's a lot of work to try to get your solo artist or band out there in the metal scene because A) Metal isn't popular, B) A lot of music upload sites suck and C) Metal fans are fickle as hell. They ditch bands for stupid reasons like changes in band's sound, lack of complexity in later releases and stupider things than that.   I found out that it was really hard to even get my stuff on a good site to get plays, It took me years of using crappy sites and then giving up to finally find a good site, 5+ years later! It was almost not worth it in the first place... So retiring seems to be a good move now..

I will still listen to Rancid Abomination. It may have very little fans now, but it did get a boost recently A russian site called World Metal bands linked to a music video I did for a song called "Black Eyes" and it got 2300 likes... That is .... SICK! But everything else has been ignored a lot. My youtube channel isn't getting good views now and it sucks... I will keep putting stuff on it till tonight and then quit there. The youtube thing is failing so bad.. I mean I will keep it up but I don't expect it to work well in the near future at least. My one good bit of news on the plays department is that Jamendo has gotten me 1300+ plays for Rancid Abomination, which is great..

Hell without Jamendo I would not be here talking about Rancid Abomination in this blog post series. Jamendo saved the day.  But this is the end... I can't keep writing new material, it is too hard to do for me to keep doing it from now on. I will try to market old stuff but I can't guarantee much from now on...

I wish Rancid Abomination made an impact on the black metal scene to a better extent. It did not.. 2300 likes on some Russian site isn't really that good..  Jamendo likes it but that's a tiny site that is barely used... No one favors it. A couple of people have put RA on lists which is GREAT but it isn't enough... RA is still KVLT as ever... Hell it still hasn't gotten well known enough to break the stigma of it being the most underrated black metal project out there.. That's bad... 2 years have gone by and I expected some better results but they didn't happen. I guess it will fade into obscurity bad... See... I don't want RA to Be KVLT! I want to be better known then it is... It's a disappointment...

RIP Rancid Abomination 2001-2006,2016-2017

Chapter 14 : Rancid Abomination goes oldschool and it did not DooM the project!

So I was working on a brutally heavy rancid abomination cd inspired by oldschool riffs like those found on Abhorrence and Disgust and The Stench of Despair. I wanted something that sounded like something done a long time ago. Reverberating the guitars was a brilliant idea, it helped a lot. But I had to write good music to make this work. By good music I mean I had to write stuff that felt like it could be used... Something like staring would not work... I needed to ditch the symphonic, sognametal and slight Oriental touches of Staring and go back to a brutally heavy sound again for the new cd which I was calling "Epitaph of Nirn"... I was making it a concept album based on the story of the Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind...  I like the game alot and I played it a bunch but the sound I was creating was way too evil sounding for morrowind as it turned out. I even had lyrics written for it and they were great... But at the last moment I scrapped the theme, and concept and decided to go for a different more primal, messed up concept.

See I've always wanted to do a concept album based on the story of the game Doom. The thing is that morrowind's story was all about evil elven gods and their evil plans and stuff. It wasn't really evil enough to warrant this sound I was creating.... But doom was! In it you fight the forces of hell itself. You kill literal demons and devils right and left... But to make it really evil I had to go crazy with the story and make lyrics that take the point of view of both the doom marine and the demons. I wanted to tell both sides... And I knew the oldschool evil Satanic Rancid Abomination vibe would come back if I ever wanted to take the side of hellspawn, which I promptly did... I wrote disgusting lyrics about demons eating people again and this time It made sense because in doom they do that shit right and left and you see the results of it all the time... So this actually fit the music I wrote way better than morrowind ever could.

Plus there is another problem with morrowind. It's based on elven fantasy that borrows heavily from Middle Eastern themes. I would have to write melechesh like stuff for it to make sense... I was nowhee near good enough to do that so I decided to ditch the morrowind theme and go to a doom theme instead... Hence the album "The Wrath of Hell" was born...

The wrath of hell came out amazing. It had a dark sound to it and had creepy reverberated guitars and no heavy distortion like older cd's. It also completely lacked the Staring changes completely like Windir like Melodies, more varied drum beats and epic keyboards. Instead it was very thrashy yet eerie sounding due to the reverberated guitars... I like the way it came out..

I wrote several songs... The first "Gateways" is about the demons realizing the humans in the doom story are teleporting through hell gates to get from phobos to deimos, so  the demons decide to attack and possess them... Track 2 "Hell Invades mars" is about the space marines sending the marines to the base on phobos after they lose contact with everyone there. Track 3 "Into the pits" is about the doom marine killing his way through phobos and deimos in episode 1 and 2.. Track 4 "Satanic Vengeance" is about the Cyberdemon in Tower of babel taunting the Doom Marine before trying to kill him. It takes the point of view of that cyberdemon. Track 5 is about When the marine is going through hell and goes through mount erebus and dis and fights the spider mastermind. Track 6 is about how the demons invade earth in Doom 2.

I think this cd came out amazing. I love it so far. I've listened to it 100+ times on last.fm in one day. I could not stop listening to it. It actually sounded like Rancid Abomination's old stuff in 2005 and I love that too. But the whole theme is huge. Doom and Rancid Abomination's old satanic lyrics go well together. This goes super well with doom as well...

Chapter 13 : I didn't know what the hell I was doing!

In August 2017 sometime, I started to relisten to Finality, an early 2017 remake cd containing old Rancid Abomination songs from 2001-2006 redone.. I noticed the sound differences compared to newer Rancid Abomination like staring into the eyes of madness and Immediately regretted doing that change on that cd. I didn't like the change suddenly, and I don't understand why... I wanted to bring back the OLD sound of Rancid Abomination. And that's when it hit me....

I never have actually done a cd that feels like a classic cd from 2001-2006 in 2016 or 2017!

Production changes ruined the atmosphere of these new cd's.. They didn't have they creepy vibe the old ones did... Not just that but the whole change thing on Staring really ruined the sound to me... It no longer sounded like what Rancid Abomination was supposed to sound like... The more influences you add from other bands, the more the uniqueness of your musical project destroys itself.. I had done that on staring. It may have been a great cd, and I still think it's the best ever, but I had to destroy the sound of Rancid Abomination to do it... Delayed harmonies were used less. That's the core of Rancid Abomination. But so is lots of blastbeats and thrash riffs. Blastbeats were used less on staring, and thrashy riffs were gone completely. It pissed me off.

I wanted something that sounded like something I would do in 2004-2005... I never have done that in these last 2 years of the band. I did a lot of albums that sounded like 2004-2005 mixed with 2001 (first 2 cd's in 2016), 2004 mixed with 2003 (the devouring) and improved technical black metal with Windir and other elements thrown in (last 2). I had yet to do something in the vein of Old Rancid Abomination... I needed to bad.

All the old 2004-2005 cd's have a lot of things in common. They don't have happy melodies much, they have bad production but they have eerie vocals and scary lyrics.  They don't have super distorted guitars and they have no really epic symphonic elements thrown in. 2004-2005 stuff was not symphonic at all, it was aggressive and dark, without being creepy in a symphonic way like staring. it used lead guitars and sinister sounding chord structures to make the music sound scary. It never used epic keyboards, sognametal melodies much and never dabbled with (slight) elements of Oriental Black Metal... Instead it was brutal, filled with blast beats, and had evil sounding guitar harmonies everywhere... It was a completely different animal... It wasn't a big ripoff! What I had done on Staring sounded to me like a Ripoff! I wanted to throw that out the window and go back to what it used to be like!

I needed to do something completely different. Something eerie. Then it hit me... I needed to stop using distortion on the guitars. I needed to do Reverb instead to add the eerieness back in... I got this Epiphany from listening to Dissection one night, and noticed their reverberated production. It became an influence immediately...  I also needed to write something fast, heavy, brutal and dark... Something with delayed harmonies and thrashy riffs, but used darker melodies that were more sinister sounding like 2004-2005 stuff, like in the old days. All of the newer Rancid Abomination were newer renditions of the old sound with changes to the sound that didn't sound oldschool enough. I needed to go back in time... And I just did that this month...

I started working on what I originally wanted to be a concept album based on the epic yet dark story of the video game "The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind".. I wrote music for the concept album that sounded eerie and fit the mood of the older 2004-2005 material perfectly.  This album's  creation is for the second to last chapter, Chapter 14...

Chapter 12 : Staring into the Eyes of Madness and Metaphysical Torment

In April 2017 I came back to Rancid Abomination. By the end of December the previous year I had folded RA Permanently. But I wanted to return to it, with a major change to it's sound as well... I was sick and tired of the disgusting evil lyrics it had and wanted to write about something completely different, something scary... So I chose Paranormal Phenomena this time.  I was no stranger to it, being a UFO investigator for over 5 years before the change was decided on, and Rancid Abomination was no stranger to it as well, doing paranormal themed albums several times in it's career from 2001-2006 as well.

What made the album I was about to do different was more involved though. I didn't want this cd to sound anything like older Rancid Abomination, so for the album (Which I would call "Staring into the Eyes of Madness"), I would ditch the thrashy riffs for black metal chords being used like normal black metal and in power thrash type riffs (think old iced earth), add elements of symphonic black metal back into the band's sound for the first time since 2003, throw in some fill ins and drum beats eerily reminiscent of drum beats done by the Band Melechesh, and on top of that, fuse in Windir Like Melodies at times... I even did an atmospheric Black Metal song too, very similar to Summoning. There were a few songs that didn't do any of this though, or very little and that was interesting as well.  Overall the drumming was much more technical on this cd then any other RA one before, and it made it far better musically. And the music was even better as well, because of the symphonic elements and the Windir-like melodies thrown in. You see influences creep in from what you listen to a lot and this was no  different.


Due to these changes this album has a really cool unique sound to it and doesn't really sound like Classsic Rancid Abomination at all. It completely ditches oldschool Rancid Abomination sound and adds so many new things to the table. I like it, it's fun to listen to. In fact I think this is the best Rancid Abomination cd ever. It still had that Rancid Abomination touch on it (delayed harmonies) but they were hard to hear on this so they were far less noticeable.

The whole album was a massive concept album about Paranormal stuff, including Alien Abductions (Track 1), Bigfoot Cloaking (Track 2), Alien Contactees (Track 3), Black Eyed Kids (Track 4), Spring Heeled Jack (Track 5), Hauntings where deer-man hybrid ghost appear (Track 6), Appearances of beings from Native American Folklore being seen in real life (Track 7), and Mothman (Track 8).


I would follow up this album with a Wintersun Style Documentary on the creation of the cd. It wasn't nearly as good as the Forest Seasons documentary but It described the sound well at least. Never really got viewed...

I would follow up this cd with it's sequel album "Metaphysical torment" which was also another concept album on Paranormal stuff. It unlike staring, was a little bit less power metal riffage oriented and had more black metal chords than staring.  And the feeling of this cd was a lot darker, being a lot more sinister sounding overall, Staring sounded epic, this sounded dreadful. But besides that the album was very similar to staring in a lot of ways. It was produced better and had easier to hear delayed harmonies.

The songs were about different paranormal stories this time, a lot came from an interview I watched on youtube with an author named Stephanie Young, who is a British Paranormal Researcher. The songs were about the following things... Horrible screams coming from a place where there was nothing around (Track 1), A man from New york city who vanished in Wyoming and was missing for a while, a suspected Alien Abduction (Track 2), A case of a phantom that appeared but could not be seen but it moving through forests could be seen due to trees moving (Track 3), a cult abduction which I will get into later (Track 4), The disappearance of a Minnesota Selectman and moans recorded on his cell phone (Track 5), An appearance of a weird white ghost in a lake in Arkansas (track 6), a cat that walked backwards like a man in an account I read on a paranormal board (track 7) and a ghost story that scared the crap out of me, someone seing a floating tentacled woman with black eyes (Track 8).

The cult abduction song was the star of the show here. The song was creepy and depressing, a lot like classic Caustic Euphony Material. The song was written about two friends who went driving to texas and they kept on complaining about themselves being followed by a convoy of different cars. They tried to talk to several sherrifs, but all of them wrote the kids off as druggies. They ended up eventually abandoning their car. They split up. One stayed behind and got rescued. The other swam several miles and ended up being captured to be sacrificed at this sick church of demonic cultists that had dead animals with blood everywhere. He escaped. He found a town and started eating because he was starving, but he was eating out of a fridge of a cop. He attacked the cop because he thought all of the cops were in on it. He went to a mental institution later and never changed his story... It's a fucked up story...

Overall, I like Metaphysical torment. But the only track on it I think is great is the cult one.. Every other one is good but not great. I think this cd was a disappointment compared to Staring...

Chapter 11 : The Craptarding Incident and the Devouring

Rancid Abomination was about to go through a serious issue. During the time period of Late December 2016 there was an influx of stupidity surrounding it's twitter page and soundcloud site.. I was using hasthags to market it, hashtags like #indieartist #newmusic and #unsignedartist.. Stupid decision because all of these hashtags are used by rappers... It's dumb.. But I didn't know that did i?:

Of course that got some stupid raptards to say that Rancid Abomination, MY black metal solo artist was rap. They even listed it as rap group on a rap list on twitter. So you know what I did, I fought back... I started trolling them to death.

I kept on getting UNWANTED Rap promoters, DJ's, Radio stations Bugging Rancid Abomination, which had a limited presence online at the time. They would not leave me alone. And every time I talked about Rancid Abomination, I got liked by rap fans. It was getting out of control....

I DIDN'T WANT THESE MORONS AS FANS!

They didn't know what good music is, and if rap fans started liking a Metal band it could be disastrous for keeping METAL fans to stay fans of the band. I didn't want people mixing Rancid Abomination's Far Superior to rap music with rap crap. It gives off the wrong message. So I fought back and declared Rap the enemy of Rancid Abomination. I set up moments to bash rap horribly. I kept on saying Rap is 10000000000000000000000000000000 times worse than what Rancid Abomination Writes, I trashed the people who followed RA thinking it was rap or otherwise, after I blocked them. I ended up with a huge ass blocklist after this... here it is for you people to see:

That was just the beginning. I had hundreds of accounts blocked due to this. I would eventually block them all on all my bands twitters as well.  But it didn't really help. No matter how much trolling and blocking I did they just kept on coming. So I tried something really extreme and changed Rancid Abomination's Twitter User Image to this:

It didn't really help. So I ditched the twitter and shut it down for over a month.. I deleted it. It was gone. It pissed me off. Whatever following we had was gone thanks to these idiots... So you know what I did? I wrote an album to piss them off called the Devouring.

The devouring maybe the most evil cd done last year and in the last 2 years Rancid Abomination was around, thanks to lyrics like this:

"Succumb to the Filth

Wickedness implode thy brain
make thou suffer in eternal pain
Sick and disgusting thy flesh will rot
while thou burn in hell's fat pot

thy putrid flesh will boil and die
thy liver will be feasted on by flies
thy rectum will be filled with spikes
thy soul will be eaten alive

Succumb to the Filth

thy stupid gangsta filth of death
will be eaten till nothing is left
the clock on your chest
will implode inside leaving you dead

thy putrid flesh will boil and die
thy liver will be feasted on by flies
thy rectum will be filled with spikes
thy soul will be eaten alive


Succumb to the Filth



eatin' thy corpse

Thy spleen will burst
thy eyes will pop
thou thinks micheal jackson
is the king of pop

but it is iron maiden
so thou will die
thy guts will fly
thy brains will be feasted on by some guy in turkey

eatin' thy corpse
eatin' thy corpse

Thy liver will be ripped
thy hole will be sipped
thy cornhole shalt be excoriated
by a 1000 1000 windir fanatics

thy soul shalt die
thy musical tastes are awry
thy stupid nature
thy fucking faggotry

eatin' thy corpse
eatin' thy corpse"

Yeah... It's bad... But it wasn't really that serious of a cd.. But I had to write it... They pissed ME off... Musically it was really interesting..

I took old tracks of songs that I had leftover from that backup that I mentioned in the last chapter and found ones with no lyrics and used them to construct  the new album. I then layered new synth and lead guitar tracks over them and improved the guitar. It was quite good when it came out.

The sound was quite evil sounding... Great melodies and keyboards... It was actually the most creepy cd ever recorded by Rancid Abomination till this point, and that includes 2001-2006 stuff as well..  I really liked the way it came out, it was well worth listening to... It had that evil vibe to it... Drums however sounded like complete crap...

Chapter 10 : Into hell and the Exploding Death of Christmas

Rancid Abomination would record it's 23'rd cd "Into Hell" in September 2016, approx. 10 years after it split up in 2006.  This one was a lot different  than old Rancid Abomination... Number 1, the sound was a lot less dark sounding. It sounded more like later Rancid Abomination stuff like CD 5 than the stuff done in 2003-2004.  The delayed harmonies were all over it and they sounded great. But the added boost of finally doing a well produced Black Metal album was great too.. Over the years between Slaughtering Hypocrisy and this, my knowledge of Mixing Software and Effect plugins increased by 50x. I had a great guitar sound I could use thanks to Unleashing Vengeance work in 2013-2015, which all used Cortex Stack for the guitars. Cortex stack is brilliant. It's a virtual amp. Very customize able, even has a cabinet built in to improve the sound. The sound I used in cortex stack was highly overdriven and I loved it. Putting it into Rancid Abomination made it more of a melodeth styled thing but it worked...

My vocals however, were not the same. They were done when no one was home one sunday and they sounded HORRIBLE. The cd came out bad due to this and this alone. Too bad the music was quite awesome on this cd. I loved the way I wrote it. GREAT melodies were being used. It brought back the classic feel of RA Perfectly. If only the vocals were better...

The lyrics were hilarious. They were just like oldschool 2003 era Rancid Abomination stuff.. Here is a small sample of the song "Smelly Hell".....

"Smelly hell
Hell doth smell
The truth it compell
Fat assholes
Smelly hell awaiteth thee

First your dog will die
infested by maggots that will eat the eyes
then your cat will go psycho
eat your wife

Then the maggots on the crib
devour the baby as he is ruptured whole
then comes the devouring
your soul will be eateth tonight

in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell

you will not survive

munch munch munch dead baby (4x)

to the maggots the meat is tasty
yummy and juicy
as the baby rots in pain
we will eat it and your brains"

I took a month off in October to rest my vocal chords and enjoy Into Hell a lot. I came back in November to write what would be one of RA's Funniest Cd's ever "The Exploding Death of Christmas". I thought one day in November, that a really bad parody "Christmas CD" is what Rancid Abomination should do for XMAS. I wanted to do a horrible Anti-XMAS Festivity cd targeting
A) XMAS Cartoons
B) XMAS Carols
C) XMAS Crap like decorating the tree and similar stuff..

I ended up going the full monty on this one hence the title and songs like:

"Slaughtered Santa Sausage"
"The Exploding death of Christmas : Die little drummer boy!"
"Yuletide Anusfart"
"Pissing on the Christmas Tree"
"Shove your Christmas Carols up your ass"

It was a blast to record. It's the longest cd I've ever done for Rancid Abomination in tracks as well due to the slew of song remakes included on it.. I think it's like 17 tracks long... Overall the remakes stole the show. The original songs were slightly worse. I still liked them but the album didn't really feel like what a Rancid Abomination Album should feel like. The remakes helped a lot though to bring back classic tracks from the dead. See I kept an old backup of guitar tracks, drum tracks, etc, and I found a lot of old songs and redid them. It was worth it... Classics like Lycanthropia, Terrible Wickedness. I redid a lot of songs from scratch as well. Overall this cd was great... I started doing dark night time music videos as well for the songs on this cd... It was fun as hell to do them.

I did a lot of videos. Like 12 or so on my youtube channel. I always wore a sweatshirt jacket with a hood on to make me look like a cultist. I thought that was a cool touch... The videos came out great. It was a ton of fun making them. I always did them at night with all the lights turned off...

Overall this cd was great.... But the next cd would dwarf it totally... In fact until the next one Rancid Abomination didn't really sound like classic RA at all....

Enter.... The Devouring...

Chapter 9 : Rediscovering Rancid Abomination Music

So what made me want to Reform Rancid Abomination in 2016?

Well for starters, the music itself...

I had found among other things, an actual copy of Eternal hate and pestilence in an old 2003 backup I still had. I tried it by chance, and I loved it. I kept listening to that and other songs by Rancid Abomination for weeks. I asked Hitman213 to see if he could find anymore Rancid Abomination for me to listen to... He let me keep whatever I found... All he found was the Bleeding... So All I had left now for Rancid Abomination Albums that I did were EHAP, The Bleeding and a compilation of old 2001 songs redone in 2003 with 2003 vocals. That's it. That's 3 out of 22 cd's I had. I had 19 that I could never get back... I was desperate.

I tried several different things to get back RA stuff...

A) Tried loading data recovery programs and looking at my Old Mp3 player's files through them to try  to recover old Rancid Abomination Mp3 songs from it. Never panned out no matter how good the software was, it failed.

B) Tried searching on Mp3 hosting sites to find files. Found none but songs I uploaded to soundcloud recently.

C) Tried to find my old mp3.com site  for the band and use the wayback machine to recover mp3 files. Couldn't do that either because the wayback machine never even bothered archiving MY MUSIC. Pissed me off to no end... Since I deleted it because no one liked the stuff it was not available to search for...

None of that worked.... So you know what I did...

I reformed it to make new cd's....

That was my answer, make better ones...

It payed off.... . BIG TIME!

Since that fateful day in September 2016, Rancid Abomination has recorded 7 new cd's and they are all good but one. That's amazing. The final one I recorded was a few nights ago and it came out amazing. The quality of the newly written material was insane. So Insane that I think it's better than the old stuff..

But the amount of times I listened to RA Stuff I found in backups or in stuff given back by hitman213 was astonishing. I had over 1000+ plays by 1 month in of Rancid Abomination. It became my favorite band to listen to on last.fm in only 1 month! It dwarfed even Windir and that was amazing. Making new cd's helped a lot.

It was important that I reformed Rancid Abomination and got it back to normal. I had uploaded some of it to soundcloud but it never would do good there. In fact it would do pitiful there till I got it on Jamendo later. But getting back into it made me realize it was the best solo artist/band I have ever worked on. The melodies were insane. I also realized that it's style is unique among black metal bands which is cool...

I had to write new cd's for this. The music was amazing... Almost as amazing as what I would do in 2016 in September. That is for the next Chapter....

Chapter 8 : Homicidal Hammerfist and Dismembered September

Back in July 2016 Unleashing Vengeance was thrown out the window and disbanded. Not a good sign. All my other bands were gone. So I formed a new one. This one was actually quite good. I called homicidal hammerfist. It was a real band like Unleashing Vengeance, hell it had the same members. And it did instrumental only metal, not just Instrumental only metal though, it did Instrumental only Blackened Power Metal. Quite a huge change to my sound I was doing.

Blackened Power metal.... Hard as hell to do. But it was challenging to pull off. Mixing the two is a lot of hard work. I chose to take evil keyboards from Symphonic Black Metal and lay that over power metal styled riffage with Delayed Harmonies over it. That made it sound almost like Rancid Abomination without vocals, but it was noticeably less evil. The sound did change a lot. Some cd's were way more evil sounding than others... 6 cd's were done. The first was not blackened power metal but blackened melodeth. The rest are blackened power metal though.. Pretty much all of these cd's are good to listen to if you like power metal. Sounds a bit different but still it's still power metal.

So now you can add Power metal to the list of metal subgenres I've written! Hell I wrote power metal in 2001 for Rancid Abomination and it came out fine. This was no different but it was cool...

But the next sideproject I did was in September 2016. It was a two man band named Dismembered September.  It was not blackened power metal but Blackened Thrash. It was quite brutal at first, being so heavy it destroys all I've ever done in the heaviness department.  It was inspired by the blackened thrash Unleashing Vengeance did in 2002 which was good. It was also quite short lived, only doing things in September 2016. Later on it went atmospheric black metal for one cd...

That one cd was a concept album about the Heretic and Hexen Games.  I had to shift the music around for this, doing blackened thrash for it didn't make much sense.. So Instead I did Summoning inspired Atmospheric Black metal with medieval elements thrown in.  That fit Heretic and hexen to a tee. It didn't really do great but it was cool..

So now you can add Atmospheric Black metal to the list of subgenres I've written!

These 2 sideprojects were quite short lived, only existing  for 1 year or less. They are both broken up now... But they're sound sounds a lot like Rancid Abomination, so doing them made me want to bring RA back bad... I did later. But for now 2016 will be remembered as the year of Homicidal Hammerfist because that music was the best I've written in years... Both had pretty good sound but the production for Dismembered September sucked... It got a little bit better in 2017 when I did 2 albums then but not great...

Chapter 7 : Windir to the Rescue!

REDEFINING EVIL:  A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"

Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)

 So I was sitting listening to Ensiferum like crazy for years on end. Korpiklaani, Wintersun, Norther, etc... This was in August last year... By this point Caustic Euphony had broken up and so did Unleashing Vengeance and I had no music I was writing at all. I ditched it all. I had a solo artist that only did Instrumentals. That is for the next chapter. But my musical tastes were begging me to get into more bands... More Folk Metal bands. Now keep in mind I was LOVING Folk Metal then and wanted to hear more. So I did a search for a band that Ensiferum was influenced by called Amorphis. I had heard them a long time ago and forgot about them. I also called them Doom Metal but To me now they are folk metal. I liked them a lot so I was looking into info about them on google when I came to a site that listed a poll where people were voting for the most underrated folk metal band ever... Guess what band they listed....

Windir

Well I wasn't expecting Windir to be the best damn black metal band I would ever hear when I listened to them on spotify soon after. And I thought they were folk metal for a while... But when a book I read talked about how the bassist hated folk metal I knew I had gotten back into Black Metal. But this time I would not leave... In fact this time I would completely ditch Folk metal for Fucking Black Metal. Something about Windir made me a huge fan of them. It was the dark, unhappy, sinister but sometimes haunting sound they had, the great great solos and the amazing melodies and clean vocals. I loved it. In fact if there was one band that I would like to come back again it would be Windir because they became my favorite band to listen to. They got me back into Black metal. Now their founder, Valfar is long dead and the band is gone, everyone knows this, and it was tragic, but his music was ingenious...

Soon after that I got into more folk metal and Black Metal bands a lot that made poor Ensiferum look like complete crap, including:

Mithotyn
Moonsorrow
Falkenbach
Wuthering Heights
Thyrfing
Summoning
Mistur
Menhir
Gernotshagen
XIV Dark Centuries
Black Messiah
Myrkgrav
Cor Scorpii
Vreid
Forefather
Primordial
Agalloch
Chthonic (Technically an Oriental Black Metal band - with an Asian style)
Demonic Resurrection
and last but not least..............

Melechesh....

Melechesh was a really interesting band to get into but they took forever for me to really like. I heard one song by them and sort of was like EH on internet radio... Later on I would try them in August 2016 and really didn't like their sound at all and ditched them for like 6 months.... But on my birthday in 2017 I bought a couple of their cd's and at first I wasn't crazy about them, but the rate they grew on me was ridiculous. I eventually listened to them 1000+ times in 4 months and it was insane. I listened to all their cd's on Spotify and especially loved Sphynx. 

Their style is very Middle Eastern sounding with a lot of tribal Drum beats being used and very exotic melodies all over the place. They also have insanely good guitar playing. Their guitarists are great. They are doing some amazing black metal.. I never expected to like a band from their part of the world (The Middle East) as I did...

I especially like the vocal style they have. Ashmedi is a very good growler, he has a really high sick sounding voice that sounds scary... His vocal style inspired mine a bit in 2017.

But Windir was way more important to me, in a way. They got me back into Black Metal and because of that I could actually stomach old Rancid Abomination material I found in a backup... And that material made me want to reform Rancid Abomination... Which I did in 2016....

Chapter 6 : Rancid Abomination splits up and I denounced it for 10 years

REDEFINING EVIL:  A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"

Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)

By early 2006 I had given up on Rancid Abomination and formed a new solo artist called Caustic Euphony. I stopped listening to Rancid Abomination because I was slowly drifting away from Black Metal. I tried listening to rancid Abomination one time and hated it due to an incident where my family hated some lyrics. That was bad. It made me hate the lyrics. I despised all the lyrics I wrote suddenly for the band, and in a fit of anger deleted ALL of it from my hard drive.

Now this would not have been a problem if

A) I backed it up first which I did not...

B) Hitman213 gave me back all the Rancid Abomination Cd's I gave him, which were quite a lot. He lost them...

Pretty soon I forgot about Rancid Abomination totally.. I had ditched it for it's "Evil" lyrics. I grew a conscience and moved on to Caustic Euphony, then later on Unleashing Vengeance... But something kept on making me want to go back to Rancid Abomination.. I never did till 2016.  My brother complaining about my horrible lyrics sparked a lot of guilt in me and that was what really made me delete it all. I totally trashed 90% of all I wrote for the band from 2001-2006 due to this. I still have a few of the old cd's today but most are completely gone. I think I only have 3 out of 22 left... It's bad now. I lost a lot of great material. Older Rancid Abomination I forgot about. It was not worth it. But later Rancid Abomination from 2004-2006 was great musically and I forgot just how good it was. 

To me for years, Rancid Abomination was my least favorite solo artist I have been part of. I hated it for years, unjustly. The complaint by my Brother sparked a lot of this. A fit of guilt rushed through me. It was disastrous. I killed Rancid Abomination in 2006 in a fit of stupidity that will never be repeated. So this is some advice for people out there. If you have great music you have written and it is not available to download somewhere else (it wasn't in my case), NEVER EVER delete it for stupid reasons. I learned my lesson..

Time went on without Rancid Abomination for years. I forgot about it... Caustic Euphony took over with it's folky vibe and Unleashing Vengeance's angry style made me a huge fan of it as well.  I didn't need Rancid Abomination anymore. I gave up on it, and on Black Metal. I even ditched Dimmu and all other black metal bands and went down a road of Thrash and Power metal for years. I gave up on Black Metal as a whole thinking it was too evil. I got stupid and ditched a lot of Satanic Music I owned. I mean I never was a Christian, the lyrics weren't the problem, I just got dumb and deleted it all... I guess it made me nervous that If I listened to it, Demons would attack or something like that, so I abandoned all black metal for over 10 years, it was bad.

I eventually would get into folk metal and started listening to bands like Wintersun, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani (God help me), Finntroll and worse... And I loved it. Something was wrong with me. Only the first 2 are actually good. Most folk metal is crap. But I was stupid and Liked it. So I ditched Black Metal which was far better than I first thought for Folk Metal?  I don't know, I think I was mentally Ill.. I was banging my head to Vodka by Korpiklaani and loving it... I listened to a lot of big folk metal bands and Actually liked them...  But one big event and and one HUGE band would get me back into Black Metal..... That is for the next chapter.

I got into a lot of quality metal over that stretch from 2006 to 2015 though... Great Thrash Bands like Dew-Scented and Hexx, Amazing brutally heavy Scandanavian power Metal bands Like Persuader and Savage Circus, and Epic Power Metal bands from Denmark like Manticora. Not to mention some great bands Hitman213's friend Mike  got me into like Mystic Prophecy.  I also got into some really cool metal bands on internet radio such as Mercenary, Benediction, Summoning, and others. A lot of the great bands I discovered last year were actually played on this internet radio, including Windir and Melechesh  but I forgot about both and went on to discover other bands... The next chapter takes place last year around August... It's about me getting back into Black metal after 10 years.

Chapter 5 : Abhorrence and Disgust, Accursed Humanity and CD 5

REDEFINING EVIL:  A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"

Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)

 Abhorrence and Disgust was written in may 2004. It was a return to form for Rancid Abomination and it was a sudden change in genre as well. All older cd's were black metal or blackened death metal. On this cd Rancid Abomination became Melodic death metal. It still sounded evil as hell but the black metal elements were gone... I still used a lot of dark harmonies. The sound of the cd was a lot darker than you might think for a melodic death metal cd, but it still was not black metal.

Unfortunately I no longer have this cd. It died when I deleted 75% of ra's catalog in 2006. That was a huge mistake. That is for another chapter. It sucks. It was one of my favorites for years..

The sound on this cd was PURE EVIL. It had some of the most evil melodies I wrote. I remember them well, well at least what emotions they brought on. They were as dark as you can get... Very oppressive feeling you got by listening to this cd...

The sound on this cd really changed Rancid Abomination for the better. One previous Cd's delayed harmonies were rarely being used but on this one they were being used a lot. It helped to bring out that evil sound. I think this is the first cd to really make use of delayed harmonies right.  The next few were even better..

On the heels of Abhorrence of Disgust came the Stench of Despair. While this cd was not as good as Abhorrence and Disgust it had one great great song on it, Harbinger! You may be familiar with a rancid abomination song recorded last year called Harbinger of Fate. That was a sequel to this song. This song was quite nice. It had a really creepy opening melody, which was recreated quite nice on harbinger of fate to open that song, which was more of a tribute to harbinger than a remake. Since harbinger is gone, I only have harbinger of fate to replace it.

The stench of despair was followed up by many cd's. I don't remember their names exactly but I remember a few of these titles. One I do remember was Accursed Humanity. Accursed humanity was a weird cd because it was more thrashy black metal than anything done before. The riffs were more like black metal and it kind of sounded like Celtic Frost. It was a cd that attacked the Presidential Campaign of President George W Bush heavily, in fact the whole cd was about crap he started. It was a heavily paranoia induced cd. A lot of it was not really true but some of it scared me. Things like extreme treatments for people with mental illnesses, where there "illnesses" were nothing but anti-government opinions. The title track was about that whole thing but the fact that that thing was gotten from a Conspiracy Site made me believe it then, I was a believer not a skeptic then so I believed EVERYTHING they put out... Now I am a skeptic, not a hardcore one but I believed a lot back then, like there were Aliens on Earth, that abductions by Aliens were real, that things like Bigfoot were real, and now I don't believe any of that anymore because I've wised up. But that belief made me believe the  thing about mental illnesses so I wrote a very paranoia induced title track about that, and that album is what I named my youtube channel after, the one I host all my music.

The music for the title track is what I remember about this cd mostly. It had a really cool part with clean vocals. I loved it. I put this song on lots of compilations as well, to play on XMAS.

The next few cd's were only ok but one really stood out.. I totally forget the name of this cd... But I call it "CD 5" a lot. That was not it's real name, because I don't remember the name. But on this cd, which was a lot like Abhorrence and Disgust Musically, the melodies were the best RA would ever ever write. It had a few interesting songs, like one about the Movie ALIEN which came out great, and another song about some kind of corruption that was great as well..  This cd was one of my favorites.  But alas a don't have more than a  single song from this whole time period from the bleeding till into hell.. In fact the one song I have is a classic called Bastards of the Light. When I first wrote it, which was around XMAS 2005, I made it sound like Accursed Humanity a lot, and I didn't like it much then, but I love it now and it became a huge favorite of mine to listen to in 2016. 

This whole period would be closed off with the final cd rancid abomination would do for over 10 years, called "Slaughtering Hypocrisy". This cd... Frankly... SUCKED. It was horrible.. And due to it unformed Rancid Abomination later...'

Part of the reason I unformed it was due to it's HORRIBLE lyrics in 2004-2005. They were at it's worst. They were far worse than 2003. Satanic, Disgusting, Violent, evil, all of those x50. I never had much in the way of conscience back then and I did write it to piss off idiots who were always at my family get togethers but that's why I think it's so evil.. I don't remember too many songs I wrote but 2 stand out...

One was an anti-crappy music song and I used the word "Faggotry" to describe it . That was bad. Another was about how kids are getting too much free passes when it comes down to discipline... These songs were quite evil and I have never written anything so evil in my life. I would tone it down  later but back then it was quite bad. I wrote a ton of songs like these over it's career... Ones that were about crap like this...

None of the material past the Bleeding was shared on Mp3.com and since no one liked it, I had no reason to do the sharing thing there. I decided to keep Rancid Abomination to my self from 2005-2016. I would later upload it to soundcloud and then Jamendo after I found that platform and it got tons of plays there but at the time, Rancid Abomination was NOT liked by anyone but me and my best friend Hitman213. It was as KVLT as you can get!

I kept it all to myself for years. Only my family heard it. My brother and my Brother in Law liked it but that's it. It never got big at all till recently. Back then I didn't even know of twitter and facebook so It wasn't online. The one bit of buzz it created is when I uploaded one song to youtube with the title "Abomination - the most underrated black metal band ever!" and that got mentioned on some boards.ie site, and someone called it the most pissed off sounding song ever. I don't remember what song I used but I think it was over my dead body from the bleeding.

So nobody knew of Rancid Abomination's great stuff I did in 2004-2005 till much much later, and only the song Bastards of the light in this case... It was crappy for it to end like this but.... It was not over for RA despite it being killed... I would come back to it in 2016!

Chapter 4 : The Bleeding

REDEFINING EVIL:  A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"

Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)

 By January 2004 the followup to EHAP was being worked on. Originally titled something completely different than the final title I would give it "The Bleeding", this cd was a cd that went through several different iterations before the final one was released.  I wrote a lot of subpar music for this cd initially and some good songs as well. They all went into the original version of it. That original version however, turned out to be quite terrible sounding... The riff writing was quite bad and sloppy. Songs sounded like something like a thrashy black/death metal mix but didn't sound good minus a few. I ended up writing the title track which was called the bleeding, but it was really really bad too.. So I scrapped it minus 2 tracks and blew it up and redid it a week later.

The final version was done later and most of the music was re-written for it and it came out much better. However the sound for it was a lot different than before. It was no longer Black Metal! Now it was something along the lines of Power metal with black metal vocals, minus the title track which was also redone and made into a black metal song. The song "entrance" by Dimmu Borgir was it's influence but it didn't sound just like it either, it sounded different at times, more power metally as well. This new title track ripped the old crappy one to shreds and became one of my favorite Rancid Abomination songs of all time. For years it would go on every single XMAS Compilation I made for family members who liked RA back then. That would not last however, eventually one family member would throw a fit about the lyrical content and people stopped liking it, but that was at least 1 year down the road from when the bleeding came out..

This recording however was quite sloppy, even in itself, I listened to it a couple of times recently and it really isn't that great. A few songs are good but most songs are quite crappy and it shows. It is nothing like EHAP in atmosphere and sounds more catchy and flashy sounding. But it fails because the timing is all fucked up. It isn't really that good of a rancid abomination cd, but a lot of stuff I would write later would make it look good. 

A lot of later stuff done in 2004 was not very good. In fact the next cd was badly done as well and all the ones done after that simply weren't that good.. It would not be till the amazing cd "Abhorrence and Disgust" recorded in may 2004 that I finally pulled Rancid Abomination out of the huge pit it built up for itself and from there on Rancid Abomination was amazing. Never did a single bad cd for years after that and that went on into 2005. I did a lot over these 1 1/2 years and a lot were not great but all were pretty good from this point on into 2005. By 2006 the band got bad again and broke up for over 10 years...

Chapter 3 : Eternal Hate and Pestilence

REDEFINING EVIL:  A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"

Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)

In January 2003 I was in a bad state. Some hack reviewer called RA Crap. So I did something about it. I decided to change the style of RA Completely. Rancid Abomination was no longer going to be some bad Dimmu Ripoff.   I decided to invent a new style.. But I did it by complete accident.  The new style I call "new england style", It's a weird name but when I wrote Eternal Hate and Pestilence (which I will call EHAP for Short from now on), I wasn't trying to create this style. But this style later on turned into the sound Rancid Abomination would use for about 75% of it's careeer.  This style involves layering melodies consisting of notes that turn into sinister harmonies over thrashy riffs that follow the same tune as the notes.  The sound sort of sounds like Something between Black metal and Power Metal. Throw in blastbeats and it becomes very black metal oriented but the riffs are different so it isn't typical black metal.  I wasn't using black metal chords then and would never use them for 80% of RA's career.  The actual sound created by this new cd would be a landmark though for me... I single handedly made a cd that could be called atmospheric as well and that is huge.

EHAP was a very creepy cd. It had bad bad production but it had really creepy keyboards and lead guitar harmonies. 3 or 4 tracks on it stood out. Addicted to evil was brutal and sinister and was about that person who gave RA a 0 on godsofmusic.com that I wrote about in chapter 2. A Dismal Euphony of humanity was a creepy slow song. Then came another song and after that came 3 songs in a row that defined this style the cd had. A legendary sound. The first of 3 was a lot like addicted to evil but sounded cool with a creepy intro piano melody. It sounded epic at the beginning, but in the chorus came the delayed harmony (the name I use to describe notes that become harmonies), and that Delayed harmony was creepy. Then after that song came the epic song something horrible. This song was X-Files Inspired, being inspired by the Episodes "Squeeze" and "Tooms". This song was epic and symphonic and is my favorite RA song ever. It is absolutely amazing sounding and if you like creepy atmospheric black metal, this song is good for that. The song after was not symphonic, it was called "Necrotizing Fasciitis" and it was a lot faster but had a creepy delayed harmony as well. This cd was very creepy, and rarely used symphonic elements. It was a change for the band, and it still like it today.

In fact it's sound was so hard to recreate that I never did it again till late 2016.  It's very hard to write creepy sounding music, so much harder than evil sounding stuff, you will never believe it. I still am not very good at writing it, even today. I have done a few songs that fit this bill, but for the most part I don't do it well.. The follow ups for this cd were not nearly as creepy or impressive, and the band would not get good again till around 2004. It went through a huge nose-dive after this cd... I say until 2004 the band was average to bad, this cd was the only exception... 

EHAP has the sound that I like for Rancid Abomination. It has THE sound. It sounds fast and thrashy but also sounds very atmospheric. It's the one cd RA would do that I would call Atmospheric Black Metal. All the others I don't know what to call them.. I am torn between calling it Black Metal, Blackened Power Metal or something else.  But this one is a landmark cd... It is brutal but also has a the creepy vibe thanks to the harmonies. They ended up sounding so eerie. I don't think I've ever done eerier melodies in the 2001-2006 material. Of course in 2016 I recorded the Devouring but that was way later. That one was actually more creepy but that is for much later.

Another thing that made this cd creepy was it's vocals. Earlier Rancid Abomination had really bad black metal screams that sounded terrible. But this cd pioneered a new vocal style, a quietly whispered/growled style that sounds high pitched and creepy. I like it a lot. It doesn't sound like black metal too much but it's scary.  

Most of the Rancid Abomination Cd's use this style. A few use the older style, even some from 2016, but mostly this style was being used till I invented a third style in 2017.  But that is for later.

Chapter 2 : Rancid Abomination Forms!

REDEFINING EVIL:  A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"

Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)

By 1998 or so I started taking Guitar lessons and drum lessons. I got good around 2001 or so. It took lots of practice to get good. Writing metal at first was hard as hell for me in 2000. My first band sucked horribly. Everything about it was bad. Vocals =  Terrible. Production = Shit (I was using a 4 track recorder to mix it that my mom bought for me in 2000). I called this band Metal Massacre. It was an absolute joke of a band. In fact it was so horrible that I no longer even listen to it, and I listen to my own bands music quite a bit... But my music would not stay terrible for long. In May of 2001 Rancid Abomination would be formed by Me and Hitman213. Hitman213 was a friend of mine I've had for years and is probably my best friend. We went through Highschool together...  It was his idea to name the band Rancid Abomination. He called me on the phone one day and said "Rancid Abomination would be a great name for a band", so I decided to form Rancid Abomination then... I was going to do music and he was going to do vocals.  Of course he could not do vocals for all songs but he did a few on the very first Rancid Abomination album "Carnal Necromancers of the Apocalypse".

Carnal Necromancers of the apocalypse was no different than any Symphonic Black Metal cd but it was far worse production  wise. Using a 4 track recorder to record music was a mistake. The sound got clipped horribly. This was the way all of the early Rancid Abomination sounded. Terrible. Stuff from 2001 is barely listenable, in quality. It would not get better till 2002 or so.  But in 2001 I thought it was fine back then. Back then I had no clue how bad the stuff sounded in 2001. It was horrible. Of course I did the stupid thing and uploaded it to mp3.com. No one liked it. Shitty production and lyrics... It pissed me off so I kept on trying to improve Rancid Abomination, but no matter how much I tried to improve RA, the response was the same. Today I blame the site. Their fanbase doesn't respect black metal. Of course they have no fanbase now, they were taken offline in 2003 and all the music I hosted was DELETED without my consent.  Not good... In fact I lost a lot of rancid abomination material over the years, that's part of the reason it was reformed in 2016.

But for now the band really didn't do well. Several albums were done. Some were OK... But most were crappy. Darkness Falls, Prepare to Die, A2K, Enveloped by Darkness, Under the Shadow of the Dark Moon, STTAM, The Horrible stench of death. All of these cd's were bad. In fact Rancid Abomination would not do a single good cd till January 2003! This is what my Black Metal solo artist started like - Disgustingly pitiful for anything, especially black metal. A lot of the material back then was super happy, it was really nothing but iron maiden + keyboards + bad bad crappy black metal vocals.

But some of it is ok I guess. I don't listen to old old rancid abomination, because to me It's not worth listening to at all..  You learn things over time. Like how to compose good music, how to mix it right, how to do proper vocals.  how to make guitar sound good.. I had learned how to do NONE of this in 2001.  By 2003 the first of those 3 was taken care of but the other 3 were not learned until 2006! So a lot of Rancid Abomination's Early Career sounds really lofi, hell early material from 2001-2006 does not sound good production wise. Good thing it's black metal.

One of the things that makes Rancid Abomination different than other black metal bands is the disgusting lyrical content... Rancid Abomination is half black metal half shock rock. I was listening to a lot of bands like GWAR and such in 2001 when I formed RA. It showed. Disgusting lyrics about maggots devouring corpses and stuff was something Gwar wrote about. When I heard that song "maggots" I immediately loved it. So I thought let's write satanic maggot metal! I invented the concept of the "infernal Baby Eating maggot from hell!". Practically ever song I wrote had the following things...

A) Tons of swears

B) Tons of References to Satanism

C) Tons of references to Infernal maggots devouring young children

D) Tons of references to x-rated crap...

Trust me when I say that this stuff I wrote makes most black metal look tame lyrically... Here is a small sample... It's the only one I want to show off in this blog for now.. It's sort of tame compared to others I wrote...

"The curse is upon thou

thy body hath been scarred

thy deseased ways

shall now be punished

Plague of deth by cast apron thee

open sores infect bloody maggots apron thee

Maggots eating thy infected bodies!

Thy be disemboweled by thy infection

Devil plague implode thy intestines

thy maggot corpses rot in the sand

Thy soul is raped by thy blackest plague!

Thy brains explode from thy disease!

Open sores attract flies to eat apron thee

Thy eyes burst open revealing maggots chewing on them

Thy soul is raped by thy blackest plague!

You are all victims, victims of fate

you shall suffer eternally!

There is no cure!

No fucking cure!

You will rott!

IN HELL!

Plague of deth cast apron thee

open sores infect bloody maggots apron thee

Maggots eating the brains of thy bodies!

Their souls are raped by thy blackest plague!

Blackest plague!"

Yeah... That's what I was writing for the band... I .look back at it and laugh today, but back then it was offensive enough for me to get in trouble with my idiot family.  My family HATED it and really don't like my music much now... It got them upset like crazy in 2004 and 2005. It was disgustingly evil back then.. The above sample is quite tame in comparison to the stuff that got me in trouble...

But the biggest problem with early Rancid Abomination is lack of originality. It went back in forth between 2 different styles a lot (and that's a problem with any 2001-2006 RA Stuff you can name per year). Those two styles were A) Badly done Symphonic BM and B) Thrashy BM with Power metal elements. By far B) was more interesting to me now, but back then I called it all black metal. Even though none of it actually sounded like actual black metal. See black metal has a penchant for using evil evil sounding chord styles. Ugly chords are all black metal bands use. Normal ones you hear in heavy metal or even thrash metal were never even used much in most black metal bands. But Rancid Abomination had a single big problem. It never used these chords back then, and in fact not till 2004 did they get used slightly.  But for the most part, Rancid Abomination never used Black Metal Chords. It used riffs that were very similar to Thrash 90% of the time. That made it sound not very good for black metal. And the older stuff sounded crappy as hell. It was too happy, the evil chords were not there to make it sound evil as hell. So it failed...

Early material also had tons and tons of production problems. Pops and clicks, clipping ,etc. This was all due to my 4 track being terrible. Never ever use a 4 track to record music, even black metal. It doesn't make the music sound KVLT people, it makes it sound like Shitcore.  It's crappy. Always use a PC to mix! I learned that the hard will in 2003. I switched over to a PC that year. The improvement was massive. I got cubase VST on my OLD PC as free software and mixed great music for years with it. 

But the Mp3.com sheninacrap would not end. Me submitting RA's music to Godsofmusic.com lead to more bullshit (a 0 review by some stupid anti-metal idiot there! - Susan Ramson is her name) forced me to change up Rancid Abomination... In a way this event is what made Rancid Abomination finally good, Ironically. But i didn't like it .Shit reviewers who don't know the difference between Black and Death metal are stupid idiots and Ramson is the biggest turd of a reviewer. I was doing black metal in 2003 when this happened. It always had black metal vocals and black metal production.  But Rancid Abomination's sheer moment of brilliance in it's first 3 years of existence was about to happen... The recording of it's best cd ever, "Eternal Hate and Pestilence"...